With annotations. Year unknown. Came labelled as "Brewery Hambrook lane / road".

This photograph was scanned from a book titled Portsmouth Past and Present by Anthony Triggs. This picture was taken at Easter of 1930, and shows the popular fair on the hill slopes.

This image is scanned from a book titled Portsmouth Past and Present by Anthony Triggs. QUEEN STREET - 1900: This photograph by F J Mortimer, was taken in April, 1900, and captures the scene as Queen Street prepared to welcome H.M.S Powerful on her return from the Boer War. The ladder, in the...

Formerly the Palladium Cinema. Demolished 1980.

The Mr, Pickwick pub. Uploaded to Pinterest by Glenn Russell.

South Parade Pier, Southsea, Portsmouth, under reconstruction, early 20th century

A map of Portsmouth UK in 1762.

Winston Churchill Avenue in Portsmouth,, 1981

A drawing of the Old Oyster House pub at Milton, Portsmouth

Western end of Sultan Road in Portsmouth.

A then and now of HMS Vernon in 1947, compared with a modern day view of what is now Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. 1947 image from Ordnance Survey, modern one from Bing. https://oddments.bygone.co.uk/then-and-now/GunwharfEtcAfter.jpg

Caption: After the Guildhall was gutted in the blitz the area around the huge building was fenced off as a safety precaution. Life had to continue and people are pictured here waiting for buses and going about their normal business. Across the square the Sussex Hotel stands on the corner of...

These wonderful photographs are taken from a book titled Portsmouth Then and Now by Anthony Triggs.

COMMERCIAL ROAD 1955 This, the youngest of the before pictures in the series shows the Emperor of India public house, which stood in Commercial Road, on the corner of Paradise Street. The policeman on point duty now belongs to a bygone age.

COMMERCIAL ROAD 1934 At the right of the picture, standing on the corner of a narrow Arundel Street, are the premises of the Landport Drapery Bazaar. A tram is making its way along the road, although by this time they were being phased out.

Palmerston Road, with Handleys on the left, was a popular shopping area, and became a social mecca for the young, which led to the oft-heard cry upon parting: "See you in Palmy."

OSBORNE ROAD 1921 A tram, bound for the Dockyard makes its way along Osborne Road, past the Queen's Hotel. The first hotel of that name was destroyed in 1901, with the death of two chambermaids.

CLARENCE BEACH 1935 The beach was a popular place in those palmy pre-war days. In the background is the outstanding Clarence Pier, which was virtually destroyed during the war.